Swiss glaciers have lost 10% of their volume in just two years, a report has found.

The analysis by the Swiss Academy of Sciences found 4% of Switzerland’s total glacier volume vanished this year, the second-biggest annual decline on record.

In order to stop Switzerland losing its ice, emissions needed to be halted, he said, but added that even if the world managed to keep warming to 1.5C above preindustrial levels, only a third of glacier volume in Switzerland was forecast to remain.

But he stressed that at least “there will be some ice in the highest regions of the Alps and some glaciers that we can show to our grandchildren”.

In August, the peak melt month, the Swiss weather service found that the elevation at which precipitation freezes hit a new record overnight high, measured at 5,289 metres (17,350ft), an altitude higher than Mont Blanc.

Huss has found new lakes forming next to glacier tongues for the first time on record, as well as bare rock poking from thinning ice.

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